EXP 14 - Record Setting Spacewalks

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*Record Setting Spacewalks*
ISS014-E-13326 --- Sunita Williams during a session of extravehicular
activity Image above: Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight
engineer, uses a digital still camera to expose a photo of her helmet
visor. Also visible in the reflections in the visor is a solar array
wing. Image credit: NASA
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With all scheduled tasks accomplished, Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and
Flight Engineer Suni Williams finished a 6-hour, 40-minute spacewalk
Thursday. Their completed tasks will allow for the attachment of a cargo
platform during the STS-118 mission this summer and relocation of the P6
truss during STS-120 later this year. Connection of remaining cables to
the Destiny laboratory will allow future visiting shuttles to derive
power from the station to extend their missions.
The crew now begins to review Russian procedures for the next spacewalk
on Feb. 22. Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin will work
on an antenna on the Progress 23 cargo ship docked at the aft port of
the Zvezda service module. The antenna did not properly retract when
that spacecraft docked in October. They will try to secure or remove the
antenna to avoid any interference when the Progress 23 undocks in April.
The spacewalk will be the 10th for Lopez-Alegria, a new record for a
U.S. astronaut.
The three spacewalks from the Quest airlock in U.S. spacesuits and a
Russian spacewalk on Feb. 22 will be the most ever done by station crew
members during such a short period and will mark five spacewalks in all
for Expedition 14, a record for any expedition.
+ Read more about the spacewalks
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition14/exp14_evas.html>
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